XAI said in a blog post, “We are excited to release an early preview of Grok-2, a significant step forward from our previous model Grok-1.5, featuring frontier capabilities in chat, coding, and reasoning. At the same time, we are introducing Grok-2 mini, a small but capable sibling of Grok-2.”
“Compared to its predecessor, Grok-2 is more intuitive, steerable, and versatile across a wide range of tasks, whether you’re seeking answers, collaborating on writing, or solving coding tasks,” says xAI.
PC Magazine reported: ‘Musk retweeted a post from someone who said Grok is “truthful and well informed.” The Grok-2 announcement also mentioned the model’s improved performance with “providing accurate, factual information.” It aims to do this by “correctly identifying missing information, reasoning through sequences of events, and discarding irrelevant posts.”‘
Besides it being a more advanced chatbot and information repository compared to other competitors, Grok 2 is also a very powerful image generator. Upon release, as the Silicon Angle noted, ‘the debut didn’t go swimmingly, as apparent lack of guardrails allowed some distasteful images to be produced.’
A myriad of extremely realistic looking images were quickly generated and then shared on social media. Some of these images, for example, featured realistic photos of President Trump walking into convenience stores with a gun.
Grok is powered by Flux.1 courtesy of Black Forest Labs.
Many other content creators and tech reporters showcased some of the images and videos Flux.1 can create. Unlike other prior iterations. Flux.1 has the ability to accurately create prompts with legible text and languages.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
I mention this because absolutely nothing you see on social media and online can be trusted. Frankly, I think this audience understands that the media and military industrial complex have been using these advanced AI algorithms for MANY years and were not telling us, and only know is big tech being allowed to capitalize on it and give it to the masses.
It’s problem, reaction, solution: create mass confusion and lies with AI, and then come in with preplanned solutions that result in a loss of even more liberties.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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When Paul told Timothy—and us— to study and give attention to reading, this command really means a lot more now in 2024. As much as the internet is useful in many ways, once we’re all kicked out of here, brethren that do work online will have lesser stress in navigating around this garbage. I hate this evil trash.
Even being in front of the PC screen too much affects us negatively, in all aspects.
There are many websites that are able to tell if pictures are AI-made or not. I searched for it on Swisscows (not the Brave search engine, which is becoming an annoyance, not Goober-Google, not Duckduckgo) and tried it. Use at your own risk though.
If anyone here goes to great lengths to deter online scammers like I do, I use long, keyboard-mashed, random caps letters, characters and numbers for my pw’s, written on paper (this isn’t for fighting big tech). In case anyone here does the same, but have them typed on a notepad file, and copy and paste them? You’re clipboard data can be hacked. Better to manually type your pw’s each time. And, constantly change these.
Jacob, do those blue-light filtering glasses work?
Yes, the glasses are helpful. I have several different pairs, some gifted to me. If I stare at blue light for too long I get headaches and eye strain.
Me too, and blurry vision the next day. So many paid, fake reviews online. It takes days to vet any product. Even after, it’s hard to be sure. Thanks.